About 60 dogs stuck in rundown Randolph home

Police and animal control officers are working to remove about 60 dogs from a rundown Cape-style house being rented by a Stoughton pet store owner.

Fred Hanson

Police and animal control officers are working to remove about 60 dogs from a rundown Cape-style house being rented by a Stoughton pet store owner.

The owner of the property alerted authorities after checking the house and finding it in bad shape and packed with dogs, but no people. Police responded around 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, and an animal control officer was sitting outside the house starting at 7 a.m. today.

The house on 8 Thayer Circle is being rented by Linda Snow, according to police. Snow runs Missy’s Puppyland, on 883 Park Street in Stoughton, and also sells dogs over the Internet.

Randolph police and members of the law enforcement division of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty for Animals went to Quincy District Court around 2:30 p.m. to obtain a search warrant, in order to remove the dogs from the house. They had not arrived back at the house to start taking out the dogs as of 5 p.m. today.

Yellow tape strung around the house, which had a sign on it that read “condemned.” Dogs could be heard barking inside, with some occasionally popping up in the windows.